Building Igris: Crafting My Personal AI Agent & Knowledge Codex

As developers, we leave digital footprints everywhere—through our code, our portfolios, and our articles. But what if people could just talk to a digital version of us? That question led me to build Igris , a personal AI shadow agent and knowledge codex designed to answer questions about me, complete with my own personality. You can try out the live chat interface here: Agent Igris , and check out my main portfolio at abhistack.pages.dev . Here is a deep dive into how I built Igris, transitioning it from a fun concept into a highly resilient, tool-augmented RAG chatbot. The Core Concept The original idea for Igris was simple: create an AI that "talks about me with my personalities." Rather than building a fully autonomous execution agent that acts on my behalf, I decided to focus on creating a robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) chatbot. It serves as an interactive, conversational resume and a codified representation of my knowledge and experiences. The Tech Stack To make Igris